"I think there are still questions about what happened in Bridgeport on Election Day," Bysiewicz told reporters on Wednesday, noting that she had just heard of the Bridgeport review scheduled for next week. "I think that kind of transparency may put to rest some of the questions that arose when election officials ran out of ballots on Election Night."

Bysiewicz said that unless new balloting findings prompt both an investigation by the State Elections Enforcement Commission and a subsequent court order, Democrat Dan Malloy, the governor-elect, will go down in history as defeating Republican Tom Foley by 6,404 votes, more than three times the 2,000 vote-margin needed to prompt an official recount.

"If major discrepancies were to be found, then those discrepancies would be reported to Elections Enforcement and should a court tell me to certify a different result I would be happy to do that, but the only way that our office would be ordered to do something different would be if a court were to step in after Elections Enforcement were to look at it," Bysiewicz said. "And we're not aware of any such proceeding yet."

The state deadline for reporting final audits in 74 randomly selected statewide polling precincts -- about 10 percent of the total -- was Nov. 22.

No Bridgeport precincts were selected in the drawing, and local officials opted out of a voluntary review of the dozen citywide precincts that were allowed to remain open for an extra two hours on Nov. 2 after they ran out of ballots and made photocopies that could not be read by the optical-scan technology.

"We were hoping that Bridgeport would do that, so that we would know by the time the certification occurred today," she said. "Since that didn't happen, we'll wait to see what's turned up and if any discrepancies or issues are found, elections enforcement would take that up."

During a ceremony Wednesday in which she certified the results of the historic 2010 election, Bysiewicz announced that Malloy ended up with 49.5 percent, compared to 48.9 percent for Foley.

"The election results are counted over a series of days," Bysiewicz said. "Usually it's completed by the week after the election is done. Nobody focuses on the process unless there is a very close election. This past election was very unusual in the closeness of the race and the fact that it took Bridgeport several days more than it usually does" complicated events.

Asked if she would have addressed the Election Day drama differently, Bysiewicz said she would have tried to underscore the fact that all totals she announced in the governor's race were unofficial and subject to change until their certification.

"In retrospect I would have stressed more that the election is a process and I think also there were many who were unaware that the election results were posted on our website," she said. "We were reporting literally on a minute-by-minute basis all the moderator returns that we were receiving, but I think there were those that were unaware that was happening and that was too bad."